Do any of you know anyone personally who has ever won the lottery jackpot?

Not the jackpot, but my brother hit $25,000 on a scratch off back in 2001.

I know someone who won $13 million.

Hello im paul and one day soon i hope to win a few bigs ones lol
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OP - Nope! They give the prize money to fake people, and just keep the money themselves.

In know a guy who hit $100,000

His wife left him when he spent it all on a bulldozer..lol

yeah a guy who was my neighbor some 30 years ago won the florida lottery in the late 90's. Won something like 80 million I think.

kinda have meet them

used to drive past there house daily

Yes mega millions...33 to be exact.

My dad hit 5 out of 6 on Powerball several years back. That was just before they changed the payouts to guarantee $1,000,000 for 5 and just paid a %. Pissed him off and he never played it again. He still won good money, but not near a million.

It seems to be the ones in harsh tests. I know a couple and they were reformed druggies, not well off. The one won a set for life which he cashed out in Okanagan Falls and bought a house, gave some money to each of his children, then got hooked back up on his drugs, sold the house, went through the money and conned his kids out of their money, etc etc.

We knew him and he was so unworthy of receiving that money, in fact he has ufo sightings and such, his son, abduction, like our family.

Someone wants him to wake up, nudges him hard, and he just says oh look at that, and cracks another beer.

The young woman got her boobs done.

She was a druggy too!

Seems that the ones who would get homes for the poor and eco farms going and councils of citizens and legal group to comb every abusive crime turned into a law, pseudo law on the book federally, provincially and locally and then mount legal cases to blow the criminal pseudo laws out of the water, nah the good don't win.

I believe the big wins are rigged, when the lotto builds up to a very high amount, but you have a small chance of sharing the prize.

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My mother and grandmother and their hairdressers at their fav beauty shop hit a lottery years back in California. Their total was (I think) about $33 million. They took the cash, which cut it down by 35% and taxes took another 37%. But they each wound up with a few million dollars for their five dollar each betting pool. None of the women were paupers and all had comfortable lives before they hit this little bonus cash hit.

Mom spent hers on a house, two or three cars for the family, and invested the rest of it. The annual income gave her more than enough to pay property taxes, maintenance, utilities and upkeep on the house, as well as the increased insurance cost of the cars, along with maintenance and fuel for them. And she never touched the principal until she was 84 years old when she knew she would be dead in a year or less from Cancer and she then took a round-the-world cruise with my sister and my daughter. The memories they made together on a near-six month cruise were priceless and they got to see the world, literally. Yes, it cost my mother nearly 400k for the cruise and related side trips, insurance, etc. But to this day my daughter remembers getting to see the world with her dying grandmother and my sister says she’d have never had such an opportunity without mom’s generous invitation. All in all, it was money well spent.

My grandmother took her share, paid the taxes on it of course, and put it into the family trust. The trust has paid for the upkeep on three houses and two apartments the family has owned since the 1930’s. My grandfather bought Real Estate cheap during the depression and rented them out to pay their taxes, etc. When the war came along, the value of the Real Property skyrocketed and the houses and the co-op’s were long ago paid for. The big house in Riverdale NY is still a ‘family’ compound and we gather there at various times of the year. The two co-op’s in NYC have increased to many many times what they were acquired for although their maintenance and taxes have skyrocketed over the years, too. We’ve been able to keep one rented (fully furnished and staffed) for a tidy sum which is sufficient to pay the costs of maintenance on that co-op and the other one as well, plus the cost of staff to keep them ready to occupy with a few hours notice if one of us is going to be in NYC for more than a day or so.

I’m thinking about selling one of the co-op’s but the tax bite will be horrendous and the other beneficiaries of the trust do not want the tax hit, even though they’d net a whole lot of cash after taxes were paid. All the family members get distributions from the trust (subject to certain annual limits) that are paid monthly or quarterly. It’s enough to live on modestly, or if they choose to work or go to school, it can make their lives very comfortable couple with their other earned income. The way it’s set up, it seems the income will go on, and increase a little each year, for the next 40 years or so. Beyond that, the best financial firms and planners cannot even project the value of assets that far out. It’s diversified enough that it’s unlikely it could all be depleted even by a major world war. But who knows today with our ability to destroy the planet if the madmen in power resort to a full nuclear exchange. At that point no amount of money will keep you safe.

Yes, a customer and her husband won a Powerball for around $70 million. Haven't seen her since.

I have a friend who has won lotto twice, and the million scratch $20 ticket about 7-8 times now.

Every day he has a stack of scratch tickets and this has been his way of life for about 20 years. He also likes pull tabs.

We won $100,000 Scratch Off ticket in 2009 here in Palm Bay Florida.

After the $25k in Taxes was taken out, We paid our House off.

We gave Fredrick the 7-11 Cashier $1,000 cash for selling us the winning ticket ;-)

People who lived down the street from my parents back in my hometown did. They won millions, but I can't remember how many.

Some women just do not understand

nope never.

I know I think it was South Carolina got busted for faking it

a couple of years ago

better than his bulldozer leaving him after he spent it all on his wife

I have a cousin who won twice- she is a drunk and her family are addicts and drunks-- so life was a party until all the money was gone! If memory serves, her ex took off with a good chunk of one of the winnings (probably the second, once he realized what a family of losers they all were)....

I don't.. but somebody near where I live did years ago. one of the Local Colorado contests. He lived in a mobile home park and it was a substantial amount of money... Somebody broke into his mobile later and murdered him. Made me think twice on wanting to win one.

I've heard on one person that is related to someone that owns a trust company

Look at the expression on the face of all the "Big" winners.
Tell me those people look like they just fell into life changing money on a whim.
Half of them look like they have just been told they banged their cousin.

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A friend of mine used to work with this lady before the win.

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I broke down & bought a couple of eachlast drawing & again today, when I found out there wasn't a winner. $500-$600 million, lump sum payment after Uncle Fucker takes a swipe?! Hellz Yeah!

BTW, I gotta ask... What's with the rain covered glass over that beautiful face?

My mechanics sister in law won 16 million

We don't have to pay taxes on winnings over here.

:) No reason really.

These are the times you have to question reality.
Some moran on the internets, mecheanics, sister inlaw won 16 million!

Something Something who was phone,Kevin Bacon.

The company I work for did a job for a guy that won over 100 million. The most miserable POS asshole drunk you could ever meet.

The guy had everything materially, mansion, fancy sports cars, etc. But he had no humanity left, apparently you can't buy that

I worked with a guy that won 21 million

In the yard of a large trucking company lived a dog, and the drivers and others would feed him.

One day on his way back from his route, a local route driver stopped at this little market to buy some food for the yard dog.

and bought a quick pick at the same time

and Won

Retired from the company 6 months before he would officially retire, took the dog, named him "lucky, left town and bought a ranch - there wasn't a cash payout at the time, so he got, Approx $ 881,777 a year for how long, I can't remember

My Ex's father hit the fantasy 5 here in Florida for 500T Plus his share was 75 grand. He was in a group that the guy starting this Group, had already hit it for half a Million by himself. Ex Father in Law gave us a couple grand to buy property we put our house on. He was a Great guy, My Ex was something else.
Couple months ago, I know a kid 28 that he and his wife got a Million dollar scratch off "Gold Rush" here in Fla. He Quit his Job and went into real-estate. So far he seems to be doing OK with it.
A Lady I know from Publix Grocery store here in Florida hit the scratch off for 75 thousand. Sweet lady, She paid off her debt and already had a retirement coming in from a State Job. She's now quit working altogether to watch her sickly father.

As for me, I play but I can buy all tickets but one and still Lose my ass. I hope to break that spell one day.